Letter 1717

Hearne sent ‘ten Copies of the 11th Volume of Leland’s Itinerary’ to London for Clements, who will sell them for 42 shillings apiece. Clements’s father will reimburse Hearne in Oxford. A further 8 copies of the treatise were sent to Dr Thorpe. Thomas Hearne (bap. 1678, d. 1735) was an antiquary and diarist. He began working at the Bodleian Library in 1701. A nonjuror, his refusal to take an oath of allegiance to King George I led to his dismissal from the Bodleian in 1716. Hearne published the works of several English chroniclers (Theodor Harmsen, Hearne, Thomas (bap. 1678, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12827, accessed 2 June 2011]).